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Gang, I know it’s been a while since I created my last set, but if you’re a frequent visitor, you’ll know I always need to come out with quality stuff. And quality doesn’t come quick no matter what they say 🙂 So, I know you will appreciate this because you know the value of vectors…

Gang, I am totally overwhelmed seeing all that beautiful samples of your work with my brushes :)! Today, we have interesting red-blue combination paper design (which one reminds me of Summer) with Swirls 2 Photoshop brushes set! Lauren is Head/Senior Designer at Digital Scrapbook Place, and what’s really interesting – she is from New Zealand!…

I was checking that stats of my blog the other day when I realized that more than 3000 visitors are coming to this site every day. Now, how cool is that? That’s, like, 30 000 in 10 days! I will not calculate more. Also, many of you write about great stuff you did with my…

I was browsing the net, minding my own business the other day, when I ran into one more commercial that uses the stupidest phrase ever used in marketing copy: “Free gift inside!“. Again and again and again they insult us consumers with this nonsense phrase! There are variations – as you know. Sometimes it’s “We’ll…

It’s hard to say it in words. So, I said it with this little graphic. I wanted to express my understaning of what really matters. Through symbols, words, shapes and colors. Probably we should turn this blog into a visual one. Less words and more images. Or maybe those two forfill each other? Anyway, I…

This time I’m giving away a three sets of 3 Christmas images or illustrations of your choice. All you have to do is post a comment with your choice of Christmas images or illustrations from my Stockxpert gallery (now istockphoto.com) I will pick three winners randomly and give the Christmas images (or illustrations) away! (XL…

I assume that you worked on your swirls creation technique with a little help of my previous tutorial (How to draw swirls illustrations in Adobe Illustrator, Part One). Now, let’s make a little case study. To make a Swirl Illustrations that looks like the one in the header of graphics-illustrations blog, we need: Swirls symbols…

… in Illustrator. Step 1 First, place a high-contrasted image (high-key image, in this case my model Iva) into Illustrator work area. Step 2 There is a bunch of tracing software and plug-ins out there, but for this example I decided to do tracing manually with pencil tool. Step 3 Use your imagination, draw something…

New Photoshop brushes in my little Graphics-Illustrations shop of wonders, I just made this Ginko Leaves Photoshop brushes set and I must say I'm quite happy how they turned out. These leaves have a nice shape to start with and they will make a beautiful add-on to your projects. Read more…